Letters of St. Paulinus of Nola
Author: Saint Paulinus (of Nola)
Publisher: Paulist Press
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9780809100897
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume contains letters 23-51
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Paulinus of Nola
Author: Dennis E. Trout
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-12-22
Total Pages: 512
ISBN-13: 0520922328
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study offers a comprehensive reconsideration of the life and literary works of Paulinus of Nola (ca. 352-431), a Roman senator who renounced his political career and secular lifestyle to become a monk, bishop, impresario of a saint's cult, and prominent Christian poet. Dennis Trout considers all the ancient materials and modern commentary on Paulinus, and also delves into archaeological and historical sources to illuminate the various settings in which we see this late ancient man at work. This vivid historical biography traces Paulinus's intellectual and spiritual journey and at the same time explores many facets of the late ancient Roman world. In addition to filling out the details of Paulinus's life at Nola, Trout looks in depth at Paulinus before his ascetic conversion, providing a new assessment of this formative period to better understand Paulinus's subsequent importance within the influential ascetic and ecclesiastical circles of his age. Trout also highlights Paulinus's place in the swirl of rebellions and heresies of the time, in the pagan revival of the 390s, and especially in the development of a new genre of Christian poetry. And, he examines anew Paulinus's relationships with such figures as Jerome, Rufinus, and Augustine. Trout fully explores the complexity of a figure who has too often been simplified and provides new insights into the kaleidoscopic character of the age in which he lived.
Letters of St. Paulinus of Nola
Author: Nola Paulinus
Publisher: Paulist Press
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780809100880
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwenty-two prose letters that serve as a spiritual autobiography and intimate view of monastic life in Gaul and Nola, near Naples, in the fifth century. +
Sacred Thresholds: The Door to the Sanctuary in Late Antiquity
Author: Emilie M. van Opstall
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-07-10
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9004369007
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSacred Thresholds. The Door to the Sanctuary in Late Antiquity offers a far-reaching account of boundaries within pagan and Christian sanctuaries: gateways in a precinct, outer doors of a temple or church, inner doors of a cella. The study of these liminal spaces within Late Antiquity – itself a key period of transition during the spread of Christianity, when cultural paradigms were redefined – demands an approach that is both interdisciplinary and diachronic. Emilie van Opstall brings together both upcoming and noted scholars of Greek and Latin literature and epigraphy, archaeology, art history, philosophy, and religion to discuss the experience of those who crossed from the worldly to the divine, both physically and symbolically. What did this passage from the profane to the sacred mean to them, on a sensory, emotive and intellectual level? Who was excluded, and who was admitted? The articles each offer a unique perspective on pagan and Christian sanctuary doors in the Late Antique Mediterranean.
Letter to Artists
Author: John Paul II
Publisher: LiturgyTrainingPublications
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781568543383
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMeeting House Essays in a series of papers reflecting on the mystery, beauty and practicalities of the place of worship. This popular series was begun in 1991, and each resource focuses on a particular aspect of space, design or materials and how they relate to the liturgy.
Paulinus Noster
Author: Catherine Conybeare
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 2000-12-07
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 0191528935
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe aristocratic convert, Paulinus of Nola, was revered by contemporaries and correspondents, like Augustine of Hippo and Sulpicius Severus, as Paulinus noster - 'our Paulinus'. But his role as a shaper of, and exemplar to, the early Christian Church has, until recently, been often overlooked. This literate and accessible study examines the profound impact Paulinus had on Christian thought during a crucial period of its development. His ideas on friendship, Christian symbolism, and the nature of personal identity were produced on the cusp of the transition from the classical world to the burgeoning Western Christian civilization by a thinker with strong links to both. Paulinus' letters and other writings reveal the roots of many important strands of Christian thought; the works of Augustine and others attest to this influence. The letters of Paulinus and his correspondents portray an early Christian 'web' of shared concepts, intellectual discussion, and group development. Catherine Conybeare examines how the very process of writing and transmitting letters between members of a far-flung community helped to bind that community together and to aid the creation of ideas which would continue to reverberate for centuries after. 'Our Paulinus' was key to that group iconic as a model of behaviour, as a conversion success story, and as a intellectual contributor able to bridge the old world and the new.
The Letters of S. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan
Author: Saint Ambrose (Bishop of Milan)
Publisher:
Published: 1881
Total Pages: 552
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Letters of St. Jerome
Author: Saint Jerome
Publisher: Paulist Press
Published: 1963
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780809100873
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo other source gives such an intimate portrait of this brilliant and strong minded individual, one of the four great doctors of the West and generally regarded as the most learned of the Latin fathers.
Strange Beauty
Author: Cynthia Jean Hahn
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 0271050780
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A study of reliquaries as a form of representation in medieval art. Explores how reliquaries stage the importance and meaning of relics using a wide range of artistic means from material and ornament to metaphor and symbolism"--Provided by publisher.
The Political Writings of St. Augustine
Author: Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Published: 1996-09-01
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780895267047
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere in one concise volume is St. Augustine's brilliant analysis of where faith and politics meet - casting a penetrating light on Roman civilization, the coming Middle Ages, ecclesiastical politics, and some of the most powerful ideas in the Western tradition, including Augustine's famous "just war theory" and his timeless ideas of how men should live in society.
